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 | Relatives and neighbours of a killed hostage, 8-year-old Teimuraz Morgoyev, grieve in front of his house in the town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya, September 4, 2004. President Vladimir Putin ordered a crackdown in southern Russia after a school siege killed at least 250, and warned Chechen sympathizers on Saturday they would be seen as 'accomplices of terrorism.' click to open  |  | A woman cries in front of soldiers cordoning off the school building in the town of Beslan. Russia was plunged into mourning at the brutal and bloody end to a three-day school siege which left over 300 children and adults dead, and many of the 1,000 hostages lying injured in hospital. click to open  |  | Ossetian man carries an injured boy during the rescue operation in the town of Beslan, North Ossetia. Prime Minister Paul Martin said it was outraged by the "barbaric" hostage-taking by seperatists who seized a school full of children in Russia. click to open  |  | Emergency workers collect corpses outside of a school in Beslan, North Ossetia, Friday, Sept. 3, 2004. click to open  |  | Emergency workers collect corpses of militants outside a school in Beslan, North Ossetia, Friday, Sept. 3, 2004. click to open  |  | Emergency workers clean up the destroyed sport hall of a school in Beslan, North Ossetia, Friday, Sept. 3, 2004. ITAR-Tass news agency quotes prosecutors as saying 322 bodies have been pulled from school in southern Russia by Saturday. click to open  |
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